From: Rob Leslie <rob@...>
Date: 2005-11-15T10:00:21+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby/GD2 1.0

Greetings,

I've taken some of the suggestions here and made improvements to my  
Ruby/GD2 library.

First, the gem:

     ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/ruby/gd2-1.0.gem

Some of the changes:

   - I took Matz's feelings to heart and realized the weirdness with  
Palette#find! is probably because Palette#find clashed with  
Enumerable#find. So, I removed both methods and added Palette#resolve  
instead. (Palette#find used to be just an alias for Palette#exact.)

   - I've gone through and documented most of the library with RDoc,  
except for the Canvas class. I'm still working on this and may make  
some further improvements before finalizing the API.

   - I added Image.import and Image#export methods. These accept a  
filename and use the filename extension to determine the image format.

   - The Image#jpeg_data, Image#png_data, et al. methods are now just  
Image#jpeg, Image#png, etc.

I left the non-destructive image operations alone, because they  
aren't significantly more expensive than the destructive versions.  
(Either version must create a new gd image internally.)

Thanks for everyone's feedback, which I continue to welcome.

I have one question: what is the process for including gems in the  
remote repository?

Cheers,

-- 
Rob Leslie
rob@mars.org